XXII. "The poet" (21): Euripides, frag. 898 (Nauck); compare Aeschylus, Danaides, frag. 44. XXIV. "Plato" (23): Theaetetus, p. 174 D. XXXIV. "The poet" (34): Homer, Iliad, vi. 147. XXXIV. "Wood": A translation of ulh, "matter." XXXVIII. "Rhetoric" (38): Rather "the gift of speech"; or perhaps the "decree" of the reasoning faculty. BOOK XI V. "Cithaeron" (6): Oedipus utters this cry after discovering that he has fulfilled his awful doom, he was exposed on Cithaeron as an infant to die, and the cry implies that he wishes he had died there. Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1391. V. "New Comedy...," etc. C. has here strayed from the Greek rather widely. Translate: "and understand to what end the New Comedy was adopted, which by small degrees degenerated into a mere show of skill in mimicry." C. writes Comedia Vetus, Media, Nova. XII. "Phocion" (13): When about to be put to death he charged his son to bear no malice against the Athenians. XXVIII. "My heart," etc. (31): From Homer, Odyssey ix. 413. "They will" From Hesiod, Opera et Dies, 184. "Epictetus" Arr. i. II, 37. XXX. "Cut down grapes" (35): Correct "ears of corn." "Epictetus"(36): Arr. 3, 22, 105. GLOSSARY This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words. ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), 14th Roman Emperor. Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under Augustus. Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and Conqueror of the East, 356-323 B.C. Antisthenes of Athens, founder of the sect of Cynic philosophers, and an opponent of Plato, 5th century B.C Antoninus Pius, 15th Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD. one of the best princes that ever mounted a throne. Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure or good fortune. Apelles, a famous painter of antiquity. Apollonius of Alexandria, called Dyscolus, or the 'ill-tempered,' a great grammarian. Aposteme, tumour, excrescence. Archimedes of Syracuse 287-212 B.C., the most famous mathematician of antiquity. Athos, a mountain promontory at the N. of the Aegean Sea. Augustus, first Roman Emperor (ruled 31 B.C.-14 AD.). Avoid, void. BACCHIUS: there Were several persons of this name, and the one meant is perhaps the musician. Brutus (1) the liberator of the Roman people from their kings, and (2) the murderer of Cæsar. Both names were household words. Cæsar, Caius, Julius, the Dictator and Conqueror. Caieta, a town in Latium. Camillus, a famous dictator in the early days of the Roman Republic. Carnuntum, a town on the Danube in Upper Pannonia. Cato, called of Utica, a Stoic who died by his own hand after the battle of Thapsus, 46 B.C. His name was proverbial for virtue and courage. Cautelous, cautious. Cecrops, first legendary King of Athens.